Family Law

Where the date used for valuating an asset is within the trial court’s discretion, the trial court properly determined the value of defendant-husbands stocks’ by considering their value on the same date the experts used to value all the other ...

Where plaintiff-father has failed to show that the trial judge’s preference for not placing children with a parent engaged in unmarried cohabitation resulted in actual prejudice to him, plaintiff’s motion to disqualify the judge was properly denied. Background The parties’ ...

January 1, 1996Comments Off on Family Law – Property Settlement (99420)

Where the record shows that the trial court arrived at an equitable property distribution, the parties’ divorce judgment is affirmed. Defendant-husband appeals a divorce judgment. Defendant claims the trial court improperly valued the marital home using the 1994 state equalized ...

Where plaintiff failed to give defendant the full amount of his portion of a money market account, the trial court properly ordered plaintiff to do so and awarded defendant attorney fees. The parties’ divorce judgment awarded plaintiff 53 percent of ...

January 1, 1996Comments Off on Family Law – Compliance With Court Directive

Where the trial court directed both parties to a divorce action to report to the Friend of the Court to provide certain information, but failed to enter an order to that effect, the court improperly entered a default judgment against ...

Even though the parties had joint custody of their daughters for several years, the trial court properly concluded that there was no custodial environment because the children had known for over a year that the change in custody could occur. ...

Where defendant failed to establish a change in circumstances or a reason to change the custody of the parties’ child, the trial court did not have to consider whether an established custodial environment existed. “After carefully reviewing the trial court’s ...

Where the facts and circumstances had not changed to make enforcement of a prenuptial agreement unfair and unreasonable, the agreement is upheld. Defendant-wife signed a prenuptial agreement. During the parties’ divorce proceedings, the trial court upheld the agreement before entering ...